how to pronounce bureaucracy

/bjəˈɹɑːkɹəsiː/

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bureaucracy is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of bureaucracy in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… we cut through the bureaucracy the one …”

meaning of bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is a system of government in which the state bureaucracy is the supreme authority.

bureaucracy frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word bureaucracy occurs in english on average 3.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics bureaucracy can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that bureaucracy can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;